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Exp the Americas

Exp the Americas ch.1

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Crusade (n) One of a series of expeditions Eropeans Made to regain control of christian holy sites in the middle east from the A.D. 1000 to the 1200s.
Classical (Adj) Related to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome.
Renaissance (n) A reacakening of culture and intellectual curiosity in Europe from the 1200s to the 1600s
Technology (N) The yse of scientific knowledge for practical purpose.
Astrolabe (n) An instrument used to plan a course using the stars.
Compass (n) An instrument that shows the direction of magnetic north.
Pilgrimage (n) A journey to a holy place.
Mosque (n) A Muslim house of worship.
Cape (n) A point of land that sticks out into water much like a peninsula.
Devote (v) To commit oneself or ones resources to something.
Alter (v) To change.
Acquire (v) To get possession or control of.
Circumnavigate (v) to travel completely around something ysually by water.
Conquistador (n)Spanish explorer.
Immunity (n) Resistance such as to disease.
Contact (n) when two or more groups or objects come together.
Pueblo (N) A town in the spanish ruled labds
Mission (N) A religious community where farming was carried out and native Americans were converted to Christianity.
Presidio (n) A fort
Plantation (n) A large farm
Found (v) To start to establish.
Reformation (n) A sixteenth century religious movement rejecting or changing some Roman Catholic teachings and practices and establichin protestant churches.
Armada (n) A fleet of warships.
Protestantism (n) A form of Christianity that was I opposition to the Catholic church.
Northwest passage (n) A sea passage between the atlantic and the pasigic ocean along the north coast of north America.
Widespread (N) Over a wide area.
Tenate farmer (n) Settler who pays rent or provides work to a landoqner in exchange for the right to use the landowncers land.
Pose (v) To present to offer.
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